Wow, you're really stretching it. You need to pause your game of tetris, because starting over would be too onerous a task? You let slashdot posts sit for a day, and then finish them, well after the article is gone off the front page?
Those are really stupid reasons to prefer sleep over a 10 second boot time. As for the tabs comment, it's even moreso. 1) Firefox is fully capable of restarting with the tabs which were open when it was closed. In fact, I think I turn that default off on each install. 2) Right-click -> bookmark all tabs.
You're stretching hard to find examples of things which you can't save the state of on power down. A 20 year old game? Partial-posts to a website? Could you come up with something semi-legitimate?
DAMN YOU! You fucking bastard. I just moved 1000 miles West this summer. Before I left, I did NOT get one last run to Ommegang in.
I've been consoling myself with the pretty good beers in the Wisconsin area, but reading your post was a stake through the heart. I think the last Three Phillys I had was in April or so.
You're lucky it wasn't the Abby, or I would be gathering weapons and filling up the tank in the car...
BTW, have you tried cellaring either of those beers? We had them in a 60ish cellar for up to three years. Until that point, they mellowed and mellowed, and were absolutely amazing. After about 3 years, they started to get too mellow, and lose their flavor.
I really can't wait until Christmas, since that's probably the next time I'll be back East.
I laughed...then considered what my sig looks like after working in a school where I had to pump out dozens of signatures a day. It started as my name, then became two initials with scribbles after them, then, as you said, a series of scrawled loops.
I think the next step in its evolution is to get rid of the pesky loops, and just go with a squiggly line.
It's not that linux can't support the graphics - the UT series up until the pile of dogshit that is UT3 all ran on linux fine, and Quake4 and Doom3 ran fantastically well as well. As you point out, the compiz effects are fantastic.
It's not "good enough" because virtually nobody is porting games to linux any more, and almost all graphical design programs are windows and mac only.
The capabilities are there, for sure. What's missing are the users, because the programs are missing, because there aren't enough users.
But you're posting on a website entitled "news for nerds". You aren't joe mainstream. You aren't listening to an AM radio talk show dedicated to fixing trivial Windows problems. That's where this commercial was placed. You aren't the target of this ad. It's the people we always bitch about on this website who throw out their old computer and get a new one from Dell every 2-3 years, because they've trashed their current one. It's the ten million botnet hosts in the world.
Look, Linux is good enough for a LOT of people. It's not good enough for a gamer, or a hardcore graphical designer or any number of niche users. You must keep in mind that if you're on slashdot, you're probably in a minority of computer users in the world.
If you look at the "Dude, you're getting a DELL!!!" people, they really only do a few things. They email, IM, surf the web, bid on ebay, watch youtube videos, write the occasional letter, and plug their cameras into their computers and manipulate them with picassa.
Those are the people targeted by this advertisement. All that shit works near flawlessly under linux once you do the initial setup. And THAT'S what this ad is for! Hell, even WoW has a damn good track record under WINE! That will take care of another few million computer gamers. Don't forget that the balance between consoles and PC games has tipped WAAAAY towards the console now. There are plenty of "gamers" who just use a PC for the above things.
Last but not least, you did the ever popular, "run your mouth without knowing what the fuck you're talking about" thing. From the website mentioned in the ad: "We install and configure Linux exactly how you like it. You get a personalized computer system just for you. You can still use Windows if you want. We can make many Windows applications work on Linux and we can install Windows and Linux together, so you can choose which system to use when you boot the computer."
In short, you're a dumbass. Everything you bitch about is either not an issue for the people targeted by this ad, or its something that this company is DESIGNED to take care of.
And the best part is that the "test standards" == "improving test scores every year, until INFINITY!"
The tests blow, (btw, they are state, not national standards) but the expectation of continuous improvement is so much in the realm of fantasy, it's hard to give it any legitimacy at all.
Are you fucking kidding? I know BMW has a reputation for being pricey, but come on!
My local Toyota place: $26 including tax for an oil change. Includes a car wash. The only thing they've tried to rip me off for were tires. I don't need awesome summer tires, since I drive sensibly, and have snows. Any crap tire will do.
Personally? I expected a minimum of 22/32 or so, even for a big car. This is 2010 we're talking about here. Not a decade ago.
I also expect Toyota and Honda to continue to wipe the floor with the big-4 American car companies. This is especially evident when the Camry starts out $6k less than the Taurus. For the same money, you can get a lot more car, and better fuel efficiency to boot.
Who the hell is Ford competing with here? You can load up a Camry for the entry-level price of a Taurus, and you can buy an entry-level Mercedes for the price of a loaded Tarus.
I've always called those "pace cars", personally. I had a red Ferrari turn a 4 hr drive into a 2:45 one once. I gave him about a half-mile head lead, and just set my cruse to "$500 fine if I get caught". Bizarrely enough, there were no cops out that day.
It's been well considered. The issue is that we lack a hydrogen infrastructure. Last I knew, it would be a net loss to put in hydrogen cracking AND the infrastructure to make use of it. Far more useful is something like pumped hydro storage, where you use the excess to life water up. We're good at making electricity from falling water. We're not good at using hydrogen for anything.
I don't know if the data from Net Applications can be considered a good sample. From their blurb: "We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers."
That seems like it would be a corporate-only survey. I'm not a visitor to their "exclusive on-demand network of live stats", nor is my mom nor anyone else I know.
Likewise, the data from W3Schools is "collected from W3Schools' log-files". Neither of these are markers of the real-world state of Windows. They are industry-specific.
I do wonder what the future of this will be. We're already tied into "increasing profits" for companies, as unrealistic as that is. We're already asymptotically approaching realism. After 3-D, I wonder where else we go. When we've passed the limits of what we can see at 2-4m, how does an industry keep expanding and selling us new things? Do we get smell-o-vision and force-feedback chairs and sofas?
Already for a large number of people, 192kbs mp3s and dvds are good enough. Crappy flash videos are good enough. I'm really curious to see how the media companies attack the future. I suspect there will be a lot of crashing and burning, as it seems the old methods of pushing technology improvements may soon hit a wall.
But there again you're seeking information far outside that which 90% of the people buying a new computer look for.
Intel doesn't give a shit about how easy it is for you or anyone else to compare processors. It truly doesn't matter.
Dell will buy 100k processors of some generic type. It doesn't matter if they are the same, worse or better than what the're selling now. They'll slap them into a system, mark the entire thing up, and slap the specs on their website.
Joe Average will come along, pick his price range, and buy that computer.
That's it.
Anything you or I or anyone else wants to know about that chip doesn't matter. It makes no difference to Intel or Dell. Those of us seeking information are a cork bobbing in the ocean of "I have this much to spend on a computer. Hey - look! There's one which matches that price. I'm going to buy it!"
Computers aren't sold on specs to 95% of customers. They're sold on form-factor and pricepoint. Intel can have a dozen lines and it doesn't matter for the most part how well they perform. Nobody, for the most part, cares.
You take your $800, go to Dell's website, and select $700 worth of computer, and pay $100 tax and shipping. And then you get a free printer with 6 pages worth of ink in it.
You aren't Intel's customer. Dell is. As the GP said, "Aside from enthusiasts who just like following the stuff, the relevant picture isn't all that complex." You fall into that "enthusiast" category, by even thinking about P5 or AMD.
For Dell, it's a no-brainer. You find a decent chip you can buy in lots of 100k, and put them in systems. For Dell's customers, it's a no-brainer. You take your money, and buy something with it.
Good points, but one of my favorites is the following:
As a thinking person, there are two likely scenarios: One, all religions are created via an interaction between a prophet and a god. The second, none are. It would be very unlikely that one of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity got a real prophet-god interaction, and the others didn't.
If they all had such an interaction, then WTF happened? God's either a sick bastard, who made 3 incompatible religions to watch the followers kill each other, or he fucked religion up royally, and kept trying to fix it.
That's a fantastic link. It's too bad you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Starting from the top: Most telescopes can't track satellites. If this was a satellite burning up over Ireland, (as has happened before) that telescope, nor any others, would make a difference. If it was an asteroid, it still wouldn't make a difference. While that design was amazing for its day, it would in no way be able to track accurately enough to image asteroids. You need very accurate, very consistent observations over several weeks to determine the orbital characteristics of a piece of rock. There's no way in hell that design could come close to doing that.
Last but not least, did you notice on the page you linked to the comment that, "The Irish sky was not kind to astronomy, and due to weather conditions there were only about 60 good nights of viewing available per year." When you can only look at the sky 17% of the nights of the year, you can't do any useful research on nearby moving objects.
All that said, I agree that it's a fucking tragedy they don't have that thing in use. It's a fucking AMAZING hunk of machinery. I'd pay to spend a few hours screwing around with it.
I believe that there was a study done that found something like 40-60% of all sales of children's stuff happened because of begging done by the children. The ad agencies even did studies on how to increase begging.
If you haven't seen it, the documentary The Corporation is very illuminating. It's rather leftist, but contains some very interesting information about how aggressively companies advertise to kids.
Society has been "owned" by many groups in the past. First it was tribal affiliation, then religious affiliation, then owned by a king, then owned by an industry.
It's not too far-fetched that just as we threw off the shackles of religious domination, and as we threw off the shackles of industrial domination, we will also be able to throw off the shackles of advertising domination. What was pervasive in society a hundred or a few hundred years ago has fallen by the wayside. Churches don't own vast swathes of land, and don't have the power of life and death over much of the world anymore. Slavery and serfdom is largely gone. Hordes of working poor aren't being shut into horrific industrial working conditions and aren't dying in large numbers in most of the world.
We've traded these things for a world where companies must encourage us to support them. I'm sure that this pervasive social ill will also dry up at some point, to be replaced by something else. No reason to think we'll stop progressing as a society.
If you buy a 16 CPU+ board in the next year, then don't use this scheduler. It will still benefit the millions of us with less than 16 CPUs. And there will be millions upon millions for the next several years. Not everybody is in a 1-2yr upgrade cycle.
Besides the fucking relationships, the non-fucking ones developed at college can be important as well. I've got friends spread across the country, and partway around the world now because I went to college. On top of that, my relatives and friends all have that sort of network as well. I've stayed with people I was two steps removed from, simply because of those contacts. And never forget that most employment is easier to get if someone in the company can speak for you.
I would agree on the chance to be a kid again. I'm 30, and back in graduate school for a PhD. I spent 9 years in the real world, and it's soooo damn liberating to be a college kid again. I'm not responsible for anything now! I went and partied last night, and am off to tailgate today. As long as I get some work done sometime this weekend, all is well. Being late isn't an issue, and really, only about 3 hrs a day are taken up with classes, on average. Add in 9 hrs for sleeping, and that's 12 hrs a day of relatively unstructured time. It's truly amazing!
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My powers of repression and selective memory are pretty impressive. I've seen goatse, and still manage to live a pretty good semblance of a normal life.
Not much more expensive - it might even be cheaper. All you're seeing is a supersaturated liquid crystallize. If you are counting medium and research time, it's probably cheaper than preparing a nutrient bed and watching mold grow. Keep in mind biocontainment and disposal. For this one, add some water and some energy, and you can just repeat this again and again.
Hell, it's probably easier to make a supersaturated solution than a proper mixture of mold spores and nutrients! For the solution, all you need is a starter crystal. The environment doesn't really matter.
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Wow, you're really stretching it. You need to pause your game of tetris, because starting over would be too onerous a task? You let slashdot posts sit for a day, and then finish them, well after the article is gone off the front page?
Those are really stupid reasons to prefer sleep over a 10 second boot time. As for the tabs comment, it's even moreso. 1) Firefox is fully capable of restarting with the tabs which were open when it was closed. In fact, I think I turn that default off on each install. 2) Right-click -> bookmark all tabs.
You're stretching hard to find examples of things which you can't save the state of on power down. A 20 year old game? Partial-posts to a website? Could you come up with something semi-legitimate?
You use those things on your home desktop and laptop at night, while you're sleeping?
Really, if your computer boots in 10 seconds, just turn the damn thing off when you're not using it.
Plus having those apps' sessions just right.
What? Your apps aren't configurable, and don't pick up where you left off? Are you using an Etch A Sketch?
DAMN YOU! You fucking bastard. I just moved 1000 miles West this summer. Before I left, I did NOT get one last run to Ommegang in.
I've been consoling myself with the pretty good beers in the Wisconsin area, but reading your post was a stake through the heart. I think the last Three Phillys I had was in April or so.
You're lucky it wasn't the Abby, or I would be gathering weapons and filling up the tank in the car...
BTW, have you tried cellaring either of those beers? We had them in a 60ish cellar for up to three years. Until that point, they mellowed and mellowed, and were absolutely amazing. After about 3 years, they started to get too mellow, and lose their flavor.
I really can't wait until Christmas, since that's probably the next time I'll be back East.
I laughed...then considered what my sig looks like after working in a school where I had to pump out dozens of signatures a day. It started as my name, then became two initials with scribbles after them, then, as you said, a series of scrawled loops.
I think the next step in its evolution is to get rid of the pesky loops, and just go with a squiggly line.
It's not that linux can't support the graphics - the UT series up until the pile of dogshit that is UT3 all ran on linux fine, and Quake4 and Doom3 ran fantastically well as well. As you point out, the compiz effects are fantastic.
It's not "good enough" because virtually nobody is porting games to linux any more, and almost all graphical design programs are windows and mac only.
The capabilities are there, for sure. What's missing are the users, because the programs are missing, because there aren't enough users.
But you're posting on a website entitled "news for nerds". You aren't joe mainstream. You aren't listening to an AM radio talk show dedicated to fixing trivial Windows problems. That's where this commercial was placed. You aren't the target of this ad. It's the people we always bitch about on this website who throw out their old computer and get a new one from Dell every 2-3 years, because they've trashed their current one. It's the ten million botnet hosts in the world.
Look, Linux is good enough for a LOT of people. It's not good enough for a gamer, or a hardcore graphical designer or any number of niche users. You must keep in mind that if you're on slashdot, you're probably in a minority of computer users in the world.
If you look at the "Dude, you're getting a DELL!!!" people, they really only do a few things. They email, IM, surf the web, bid on ebay, watch youtube videos, write the occasional letter, and plug their cameras into their computers and manipulate them with picassa.
Those are the people targeted by this advertisement. All that shit works near flawlessly under linux once you do the initial setup. And THAT'S what this ad is for! Hell, even WoW has a damn good track record under WINE! That will take care of another few million computer gamers. Don't forget that the balance between consoles and PC games has tipped WAAAAY towards the console now. There are plenty of "gamers" who just use a PC for the above things.
Last but not least, you did the ever popular, "run your mouth without knowing what the fuck you're talking about" thing. From the website mentioned in the ad: "We install and configure Linux exactly how you like it. You get a personalized computer system just for you. You can still use Windows if you want. We can make many Windows applications work on Linux and we can install Windows and Linux together, so you can choose which system to use when you boot the computer."
In short, you're a dumbass. Everything you bitch about is either not an issue for the people targeted by this ad, or its something that this company is DESIGNED to take care of.
And the best part is that the "test standards" == "improving test scores every year, until INFINITY!"
The tests blow, (btw, they are state, not national standards) but the expectation of continuous improvement is so much in the realm of fantasy, it's hard to give it any legitimacy at all.
Are you fucking kidding? I know BMW has a reputation for being pricey, but come on!
My local Toyota place: $26 including tax for an oil change. Includes a car wash. The only thing they've tried to rip me off for were tires. I don't need awesome summer tires, since I drive sensibly, and have snows. Any crap tire will do.
Personally? I expected a minimum of 22/32 or so, even for a big car. This is 2010 we're talking about here. Not a decade ago.
I also expect Toyota and Honda to continue to wipe the floor with the big-4 American car companies. This is especially evident when the Camry starts out $6k less than the Taurus. For the same money, you can get a lot more car, and better fuel efficiency to boot.
Who the hell is Ford competing with here? You can load up a Camry for the entry-level price of a Taurus, and you can buy an entry-level Mercedes for the price of a loaded Tarus.
I've always called those "pace cars", personally. I had a red Ferrari turn a 4 hr drive into a 2:45 one once. I gave him about a half-mile head lead, and just set my cruse to "$500 fine if I get caught". Bizarrely enough, there were no cops out that day.
It's been well considered. The issue is that we lack a hydrogen infrastructure. Last I knew, it would be a net loss to put in hydrogen cracking AND the infrastructure to make use of it. Far more useful is something like pumped hydro storage, where you use the excess to life water up. We're good at making electricity from falling water. We're not good at using hydrogen for anything.
I don't know if the data from Net Applications can be considered a good sample. From their blurb: "We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers."
That seems like it would be a corporate-only survey. I'm not a visitor to their "exclusive on-demand network of live stats", nor is my mom nor anyone else I know.
Likewise, the data from W3Schools is "collected from W3Schools' log-files". Neither of these are markers of the real-world state of Windows. They are industry-specific.
Your point for posting these was what. again?
I do wonder what the future of this will be. We're already tied into "increasing profits" for companies, as unrealistic as that is. We're already asymptotically approaching realism. After 3-D, I wonder where else we go. When we've passed the limits of what we can see at 2-4m, how does an industry keep expanding and selling us new things? Do we get smell-o-vision and force-feedback chairs and sofas?
Already for a large number of people, 192kbs mp3s and dvds are good enough. Crappy flash videos are good enough. I'm really curious to see how the media companies attack the future. I suspect there will be a lot of crashing and burning, as it seems the old methods of pushing technology improvements may soon hit a wall.
But there again you're seeking information far outside that which 90% of the people buying a new computer look for.
Intel doesn't give a shit about how easy it is for you or anyone else to compare processors. It truly doesn't matter.
Dell will buy 100k processors of some generic type. It doesn't matter if they are the same, worse or better than what the're selling now. They'll slap them into a system, mark the entire thing up, and slap the specs on their website.
Joe Average will come along, pick his price range, and buy that computer.
That's it.
Anything you or I or anyone else wants to know about that chip doesn't matter. It makes no difference to Intel or Dell. Those of us seeking information are a cork bobbing in the ocean of "I have this much to spend on a computer. Hey - look! There's one which matches that price. I'm going to buy it!"
Computers aren't sold on specs to 95% of customers. They're sold on form-factor and pricepoint. Intel can have a dozen lines and it doesn't matter for the most part how well they perform. Nobody, for the most part, cares.
You aren't understanding the parent.
You take your $800, go to Dell's website, and select $700 worth of computer, and pay $100 tax and shipping. And then you get a free printer with 6 pages worth of ink in it.
You aren't Intel's customer. Dell is. As the GP said, "Aside from enthusiasts who just like following the stuff, the relevant picture isn't all that complex." You fall into that "enthusiast" category, by even thinking about P5 or AMD.
For Dell, it's a no-brainer. You find a decent chip you can buy in lots of 100k, and put them in systems. For Dell's customers, it's a no-brainer. You take your money, and buy something with it.
Good points, but one of my favorites is the following:
As a thinking person, there are two likely scenarios: One, all religions are created via an interaction between a prophet and a god. The second, none are. It would be very unlikely that one of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity got a real prophet-god interaction, and the others didn't.
If they all had such an interaction, then WTF happened? God's either a sick bastard, who made 3 incompatible religions to watch the followers kill each other, or he fucked religion up royally, and kept trying to fix it.
Either way, he doesn't get my vote.
That's a fantastic link. It's too bad you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Starting from the top: Most telescopes can't track satellites. If this was a satellite burning up over Ireland, (as has happened before) that telescope, nor any others, would make a difference. If it was an asteroid, it still wouldn't make a difference. While that design was amazing for its day, it would in no way be able to track accurately enough to image asteroids. You need very accurate, very consistent observations over several weeks to determine the orbital characteristics of a piece of rock. There's no way in hell that design could come close to doing that.
Last but not least, did you notice on the page you linked to the comment that, "The Irish sky was not kind to astronomy, and due to weather conditions there were only about 60 good nights of viewing available per year." When you can only look at the sky 17% of the nights of the year, you can't do any useful research on nearby moving objects.
All that said, I agree that it's a fucking tragedy they don't have that thing in use. It's a fucking AMAZING hunk of machinery. I'd pay to spend a few hours screwing around with it.
When in doubt, refer to the British Isles Venn Diagram.
I believe that there was a study done that found something like 40-60% of all sales of children's stuff happened because of begging done by the children. The ad agencies even did studies on how to increase begging.
If you haven't seen it, the documentary The Corporation is very illuminating. It's rather leftist, but contains some very interesting information about how aggressively companies advertise to kids.
It's not all that foolish a notion.
Society has been "owned" by many groups in the past. First it was tribal affiliation, then religious affiliation, then owned by a king, then owned by an industry.
It's not too far-fetched that just as we threw off the shackles of religious domination, and as we threw off the shackles of industrial domination, we will also be able to throw off the shackles of advertising domination. What was pervasive in society a hundred or a few hundred years ago has fallen by the wayside. Churches don't own vast swathes of land, and don't have the power of life and death over much of the world anymore. Slavery and serfdom is largely gone. Hordes of working poor aren't being shut into horrific industrial working conditions and aren't dying in large numbers in most of the world.
We've traded these things for a world where companies must encourage us to support them. I'm sure that this pervasive social ill will also dry up at some point, to be replaced by something else. No reason to think we'll stop progressing as a society.
If you buy a 16 CPU+ board in the next year, then don't use this scheduler. It will still benefit the millions of us with less than 16 CPUs. And there will be millions upon millions for the next several years. Not everybody is in a 1-2yr upgrade cycle.
Besides the fucking relationships, the non-fucking ones developed at college can be important as well. I've got friends spread across the country, and partway around the world now because I went to college. On top of that, my relatives and friends all have that sort of network as well. I've stayed with people I was two steps removed from, simply because of those contacts. And never forget that most employment is easier to get if someone in the company can speak for you.
I would agree on the chance to be a kid again. I'm 30, and back in graduate school for a PhD. I spent 9 years in the real world, and it's soooo damn liberating to be a college kid again. I'm not responsible for anything now! I went and partied last night, and am off to tailgate today. As long as I get some work done sometime this weekend, all is well. Being late isn't an issue, and really, only about 3 hrs a day are taken up with classes, on average. Add in 9 hrs for sleeping, and that's 12 hrs a day of relatively unstructured time. It's truly amazing!
My powers of repression and selective memory are pretty impressive. I've seen goatse, and still manage to live a pretty good semblance of a normal life.
Not much more expensive - it might even be cheaper. All you're seeing is a supersaturated liquid crystallize. If you are counting medium and research time, it's probably cheaper than preparing a nutrient bed and watching mold grow. Keep in mind biocontainment and disposal. For this one, add some water and some energy, and you can just repeat this again and again.
Hell, it's probably easier to make a supersaturated solution than a proper mixture of mold spores and nutrients! For the solution, all you need is a starter crystal. The environment doesn't really matter.